Antonia Hylton discusses her book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. Ms. Hylton’s extensive research into Crownsville Hospital in Maryland, a segregated […]
Surviving Reconstruction with Kidada E. Williams
Kidada E. Williams discusses her book, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction. Professor Williams begins by […]
Shaker Heights’ History of Integration with Laura Meckler
Journalist Laura Meckler of the Washington Post discusses her book, Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. Beginning with a historical overview […]
Gun Rights as Consumerism with Andrew McKevitt
Professor Andrew McKevitt talks about his book, “Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America.” America’s gun culture was not an inevitable […]
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI’s White Christian Nationalism with Lerone Martin
Lerone Martin discusses his new book, “The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.” Prof. […]
Colonial Slavery and Disability with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Professor Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy discusses her book, “Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean,” which examines the relationship between disability, antiblack racism, and […]
Reproductive Injustice: Black Motherhood and Premature Birth with Prof. Dána-Ain Davis
Prof. Dána-Ain Davis, Queens College, convincingly argues that longstanding poor birth outcomes for Black women, including higher mortality and morbidity rates, cannot simply be explained […]
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Covering the Border War with Sang Hea Kil
How the news media create crime, race, nation, and the USA-Mexico divide examines border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and […]
Slavery and Surrogacy with Alys Weinbaum
Alys Weinbaum, professor of English at the University of Washington, discusses her book, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery. Professr Weinbaum examines how the legal and […]